The Trickster
1994
Artist, American, born 1926
Artwork overview
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Medium
mixed media assemblage
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Credit Line
Purchased as the Gift of Sharon Percy Rockefeller and Senator John Davison Rockefeller IV
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Dimensions
overall: 226.06 × 68.58 × 31.12 cm (89 × 27 × 12 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2021.85.1
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist, Los Angeles; purchased 25 September 2021 through (Roberts Projects, Los Angeles) by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1994
Limbo: A transitional State of Place, Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1994.
2020
Mojo Rising, California State University, Los Angeles, 2020.
2021
Betye Saar: Serious Moonilight, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, 2021, unnumbered catalogue (published 2022).